I’m trying to buckle down and figure this WordPress thing out. I’ve had this blog since April of 09′ and I never really bothered to mess with the plug-ins and all that sort of stuff unless it was something that I needed to do, like NAO. But I’m curious to know what plug-ins there are and how they can help make my blog better.

My categories aren’t working correctly, I know, and I’m trying to figure out how to fix that. Also, I’m thinking of changing them. It’s probably going to take me FOREVER to go through all of my posts and re-categorize them but I want to change this blog up a bit. I also took out Google Friend Connect since word is out that Google is getting rid of it for non blogspot blogs in March of 2012. So in its place is my link to follow me on Bloglovin (I’m obsessed with that site lately) and to follow me on Facebook and of course you could RSS too.

With that said, I’m thinking of opening up log in, where you guys register to my blog to see private posts. I’m hitting a point where I want to write personal things here, but I want to keep certain personal things out of the public. If that makes sense.

I’ve also started a channel with this blog, and I’m doing vlogmas so that’s exciting. I’ll be editing the first video for that tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll have more to say tomorrow. Ooh I do have something to say, but not too much. Darn. But I’m hoping to turn that into an everyday babble vlog channel. So yay! Pretty excited. I did my first video on my new review channel. So that’s exciting, sort of.

In totally unrelated news… I can’t wait to be back in Florida and I’ve been thinking about my re-wedding. When M and I got married, the plan was to get re-married after everything with the military had settled down. But since that plan didn’t work out, it’s been a little blah lately. Well that and my total going away get together fail from last year. A part of me sort of doesn’t want to bother with another wedding if no one’s going to show up like my last one. But I figure, we have some pretty amazing friends who we know will definitely be there, no matter where it is so maybe a re-wedding wouldn’t be so hopeless. I want a real wedding, somewhere where I have full control over the decorations and with what goes on. And I want to be happy and surrounded by amazing people. So maybe I’ll start sort of planning that soon (:

….and to boo and Flixie too! <3

Holidays arent too special around here. It was a normal day. Mom’s at work, dad went to church, Carlo goes to work. Dad came home with lots of yummie Chinese food though, so I’ve been eating all day lol. He got me my favorite, Won Ton Soup! Yummm!

I didnt get anything done today. I took a some pics for my NYX palette haul. Tried out some looks, played around with my MAC eyeshadow’s. I dont see why everyone loves Ricepaper and Nylon so much. I did swatches of MAC Nylon and FLIRT! Honey Lemonade and guess what, they were exactly the same! That was something weird to accidently come across!

Had a bunch of stuff to do, didnt do any of them… I need to start making a list of things I need to do, I slack off when I dont.

Got some more info on the Basic Training/Tech School stuff. I probably wont be moving out there for a month, cause it would hardly seem worth it if hes not gonna have that much free time… its just gonna suck being away from him for five months. I will however, visit at least once a month. Get over my fear of flying alone, I guess. How I’ll do that… I have no clue since he’s gonna be basically half way across the country. I dont know how well I’ll do with landing by myself. UGH.

Damn you fears. Seriously. Being afraid of pretty much everything really effen sucks. Like you would not believe the shit that goes on in my head sometimes!

Whateverr… after Tech School it shouldnt be too bad after that. Hopefully he’ll get to come home for Christmas. I’m sure he will, that’d be messed up if he didnt.

I need to get this domain up and running. I mean it IS up and running… but I mean… you know, the layout pulled together. I need to get my beauty page up too, but that’s gonna take a lot more… learning. I need to get on the “new entries” I’ve been planning on writing.

I just really suck at reviewing things. Really.

My daddy liked his ipod =). I’m glad he did. Holidays are kinda depressing around here…

• Redeem my AE $10 gift card (and get my hoodie!)
• Get dad’s Father’s Day card & gift bag
• Get a bin from Target
• Mail Rai’s package

So yay for getting everything done! And in such a short amount of time too!

After getting the last thing done, me and Martin were sitting in the Kinkos parking lot for about 15-30 minutes just because we didnt know what else to do and I wanted Olive Garden but we didnt have any money. So we were kinda just sitting there falling asleep/talking/listening to the radio.

Well out of nowhere, my dad pulls up to the parking lot lol! And we both scream out the window “dad!” and he comes over and I ask for money for OG lol! So we go and have dinner, yay!

I wanted to have dinner cause I wanted more time to talk about some stuff, but we were both really tired and ended up just talking about random stuff and cracking jokes.

I came home and put my dad’s gift together and wrote him a letter. And started laundry, played with false lashes (and failed) and put everything I wanted to put in the bin, in the bin (and it fit, yipee!). Gawh, I hate how cluttered my room looks! I have freakin makeup everywhere!!

I was able to record videos yesterday. I had to do the MARK haul like 3 times cause I kept eating up ALL the memory card space. UGH. It was a huge haul too. Whatever, after these 2 (the ELF and MARK) I’m going to try to not post any haul videos unless they’re for a special reason. No one wants to see a whole channel of nothing but haul videos! So I’m gonna try to change it up a bit. The only problem is, I suck at reviewing things. But I’m practicing. I’m in a few makeup reviewing communities, so yeah.

I also changed the layout to this blog yesterday! I like how it says “the daily grind” at the top! This layout is suuper cute. I’m gonna edit it around later, I’ve got a lot of work to do as far as the domain goes.

I had a weird dream about my ex boyfriend last night. He was being nice to me and when I thought he was talking shit, he grabbed my arm screaming “what makes you think I dont care about you”. Yeah, that was a total dream. I’m happy to say though, I havent thought of him in years and I dont wonder how he’s doing. I honestly dont care. It was just weird how I had a dream about him though.

Martin’s been buggin me about checkin out Pandora Radio. So I made a station with Linkin Park and they were playin my jams. Not just LP, but Switchfoot, Nickleback, ect. It was hot! So I made another station with Donell Jones and I’m just slowinnnn it down up in here. So fuckin relaxing!! I love Donell Jones! He got that kinda voice you just take a candle lit bubble bath to, ya dig?

Okay okay, this site is the shit. I love the sound quality on it. Its CD quality, they play songs within the genre of the singer/song you pick. Its pretty spiffy.

Period’s make me sleepy, Its only 1AM and I’m ready to knock out!

I was on Twitter watchin Bow Wow  & Soulja Boy on blogtv… watchin Tila’s grind video hahaha. It was hella funny, nice to know celeb’s are people just like us too. Esp Bow Wow, I’ve been a fan of his since Bounce With Me. Haha!

So I went shopping with the bestie yesterday. Gooooooooodness! Did some damage at Target, not as much as I usually do, so I was happy about that. But then she took me to CCO. Oh goodness, I fell in love. I didnt know the CCO closer to my house (AHHH THEY PLAYIN NE-YO!) was bigger than the one away from my house!! And they had SO MUCH MORE selection! I went nuts! I was all over the place. I was so so so happy to find MAC Claire de Lune eyeshadow!! Hello, Twilight anyone? LOL. They also had some FLIRT! And some Grass Roots (huge Kohls fan too). So that was a nice surprise.

I had fun with the bestie. She’s leavin for the P.I. I’m gonna miss her!! Who am I gonna talk to for the next three weeks?!

So much shit to do today… busy week too. Ahh! Sa’ll good though. Gonna finally cop me a Dyno shirt tomorrow. Cause its about time!

Still waitin on my MARK rep kit and my MARK haul, hopefully it’ll get here tomorrow. I’m super excited for it. Gotta make a few more videos (even though I havent even uploaded the ones I already have). My blog and youtube arent synced, which gets confusing after awhile… bah!

Still gotta make the layout for the makeup site. Yeah, about that… and still gotta code the layout for the other site… yeah… about that too… haha I’m slackin, I know! But I aint been home and I had a phatty headache yesterday. So…. blaaah!

I’ll jump on it though!

I just called AE to see if I could pay my credit card at the store and the operator was like “no there isnt any additional payment method Ms. Aba… Hazel” I giggled. She was obviously tired, she kept correcting herself. I hope I made her night a little better.

I had a bunch of stuff I was going to do today, mainly clean my room. But I’m just not in the mood to get up, sit down, get up, sit down, bend over… especially with a headache. Maybe its a sign I need to take a day off from moving around so much… maybe. But I had plans!! Grr.

I recently joined a blogging community called “20somethings”. Its pretty cool. I didnt know Ning was able to do all that!

I’m still trying to figure out how to promote my store, with all these networking sites you’d think it would be cake… but no one ever listens to you when it actually comes to promoting or anything… which kinda sucks. Whats the use of networking sites without the networking?! Came up with some good idea’s for promoting the store though. Also came up with some good idea’s for this blog and for my sites. Just gotta get those projects up and running! I’ve been so out of touch with html (and what the heck is xhtml?!) that this is gonna take awhile *sigh*.

I’m still trying to get use to wordpress, there’s so much you’re able to do, but I dont even know where to start! Its exciting and frustrating all at the same time. I love that!! Haha.

Life changing meeting on Friday. I’m super excited! I hope everything works out. Unfortunately getting married isnt something I’m gonna be able to avoid for the next few years… darn. Its all good though lol!

I hate how June is one of my most busy months!!

I tried Sims3 today, not sure if I like it *gaaaaaaasp*.

Anyway, what has been going on?

Sunday I watched UP in 3D with the boyfriend, he wanted to see it and he wanted to see it in 3D lol. I thought it was gonna be boring, but since I’m a huge Pixar fan, I watched it. OMG, first of all… saddest intro to a movie ever. I swear. I was about to start bawling in that packed movie theater at least three times! It was so cute, cause through the whole sad part, Martin would squeeze my hand. I know he wants to make sure I make it to Disney, and it melts my heart that he does. I’ll get there, dont worry babe! After I think we went to Wal Mart cause I ran out of Broccoli Velveeta’s, those things are delicious. I bought the last 3 haha. I hope they’ll restock these cause OMG, delicious.

Monday which was yesterday duh. I’m all digging in my memory like what was Monday…? haha. We went to the mall, he went to the gym and I tried to go shopping, but I couldnt find anything I wanted. I know, insane. I bought everything I wanted at the mall already! I bought 3 MAC paint pots last week, I took another look at the Style Warriors and nothing screamed out to me, I forgot the brush from BE that I wanted to return, I have too many eyeliners/brushes/eyeshadow…. haha. Darn! I forgot to look for the book I wanted though. Lammmeeee! I did get some of the new Victoria Secret Beauty Rush dome eye shadows. Only because I had a free $10 gift card to spend. I bought 6 since it was 6/$15 and I got one free, so heyyy! And that was about it. The guy who works at the bakery I always eat at gave me a 15% off discount on my meal yesterday, weird. Buuuttt I’m not complaining! Ended up talking to Sammie for about an hour, which was nice. I was trying to buy her eyeliner but she was being difficult lol.

And today we went to get gyoza’s cause I’m just way too addicted to them lol. Then we went to Target and I got SIMS3!! HELL YEAH!! FINALLY!! OMG. I bought the demo back in November when I went shopping with Joey. I ended up getting the collectors edition even though it was freakin $70. But I wanted the cool USB drive and the SimCard lol! Besides, I think I shoulda got it cause I am a Sims fan! I also got Hes Just Not That Into You cause I’ve been craving to watch it for a month. I was sad to see that Confessions of a Shopaholic wasnt out yet. I SO want to watch it! We also headed down to the military offices. I knew they werent booked! Hmm…

I also recorded like five videos today. I did my random’s haul video and when I was putting everything away I forgot to mention my V.S and my Cherry Culture haul! ARGHHH! Dont you hate when that happens?! Ah, I’ll save it for next, I guess! So I should be uploading some videos soon. Both my camera’s died on me during video filming lol. I hate when that happens too. I keep forgetting that filming takes up more battery! Trying to think of what I want my site to look like, drawing out navigation and stuff like that… trying to figure out how to advertise my shop, which is really hard.

I dont see why I keep giving myself all these off the wall challenges and sit there like “I cant do this, I cant do this, there’s no way I can do this” but yet I end up doing it. *sigh*. As a business major, I think being a MARK rep would be a very helpful experience. I just gotta think it through.

Oh another note…

I finally figured out how to install WordPress on to my main page, as you can see. I also figured out how to install the non easy one. So I now have full control over my WordPress. The only problem is, I’m extremely new to WordPress. And I know I cant just jump into it thinking that I know exactly what I’m doing if I’ve never sat down and had a nice can of Dr. Pepper with it! And yet, I expect just that to happen. I’m still trying to get use to all the things on the left side. All the nifty gadgets and plugins and widgets…

My biggest irritation right now though, is trying to figure out how to edit my template! I’ve looked at a bunch of other sites powered by WordPress to see how they did theirs, but I dont know if its a WordPress template or an actually layout. I hate how default-ish my page looks right now! Grrr. I’m also trying to figure out if it would be possible to create/edit my WordPress template in DreamWeaver.

I’m not a huge fan of DreamWeaver. I took a web design class in 2005, and it was so hard to understand… then again this is coming from someone who started when Notepad was the “DreamWeaver”. So I guess I’m still stuck in that I’d-rather-edit-on-notepad phase. I’m having fun figuring all this out though. I forgot how fun and rewarding web and graphic design can be. I regret leaving it for five years. But hey, I’m back now and I’m gonna be better than I was before =).

I was in a blah mood yesterday. I kinda wanted to stay home but I kinda wanted to go out. And I kinda wanted to go to Target in the next city over cause they sell ELF there lol. I know, silly reason. But Martin wanted to go to Bay Street, and I figured why not. I wanted to try California Pizza Kitchen since all my friends keep talking about it. So we go over there and we get the BBQ Pizza and I get a cherry lemonade and OMGGG, the food was SO good. I wanted to get another one to go, but instead I got a hot fudge sundae. I know wtf. Went to B&N real quick but didnt end up looking at anything cause we wanted to go to Ranch 99 too.

So headed over to Ranch, walked around a bit. I got a little cute jar and those star papers. I was on a search for smellies (as my friend calls them) and OMG they were super over priced! I did get to test smell them though, so I have a nice little wish list for him next time he orders LOL. I got a King Mickey (from Kingdom Hearts) shirt and I got…. a Axel figurine!!! Martin had pointed out they had a series 3 out now, but it only showed Minnie, Jack Sparrow and Sora. I have Axel for series 2 (or was it Roxas, I cant remember) so I was bummed about that, but when I was about to pay for my shirt, I noticed they had a mini’s for series 3 and AXEL was one of them. But it was one of those at random boxes. So me and the cashier were trying to guess which one was Axel. She said if I got Jack she’d let me pick another one cause she wanted Jack. So I opened my first box and it was Jack haha. So I had Martin pick my next box and IT WAS AXEL!!! I was so excited!! Hehe. Yayy!!

Went to the grocery store to get Egg Drop Soup but they dont sell it anymore =(. It was one of the best I’ve had (besides the one in the Philippines)! I did get a small thing of Chow Mein, 2 pot stickers and 1 shrimp dumpling but the lady gave me one for free =D. The Chow Mein was so good! And it was only $1.70, she packed it too lol.

After that we headed to Wal Mart back home. Picked up some groceries that came out to $11. And it was a crap load of stuff. Wal Mart makes it so hard for me to hate them…. arghhh!

Came home and worked on my layout some more, I love the way it turned out! I just gotta figure out the navigation today and the CSS and I’m done! Martin got his own domain yesterday too! I’m pretty excited to see how it’ll turn out =).

I’m excited I hit 20 blogger followers and 29 youtube subscribers last night!! Yayyy!!! =)

I went to Taget yesterday and picked up my first Cover Girl palette. I’ll post pictures later, I dont feel like doing it right now. I also got that Revlon ColorStay Mineral Finishing Powder. Gonna try that out. Also got Gardening Mama! Hells yeah! I have all the Cooking Mama games for both DS & Wii.

I’m still tryin to think of a good layout for the site. I’m thinkin of just pickin a song I’m hella feelin right now and making a Chuck & Blair layout or some shit, whatever yah know! I just need to get this shit up & open! I needs to get that foolishxlady one up too, I dont know what I want that to be about. Then I gotta figure out this WordPress plugins stuff… ughh. I shoulda never took a break from all this web stuff. I’m so non computer savvy now too, I cant even get my headset to work! How freakin sad. I need to get back on top of my game! Ughhh. Being lazy is deadly, I’m tellin you! Years just pass and you aint got shit to look back on. It’s nuts!

Today’s gonna be spent paying bills and splurging a bit, I hope. That’s if I find somethin I like. Thinkin of getting some MAC pigments, but I’m sure once I get up close & personal I’ll change my mind — as always.

So a few days ago, my ex boyfriend tell’s me he’s getting married. I was totall shocked at the news. I mean, I’m happy because he’s happy. And I like seeing him happy. But I’d be lying if I said I wasnt a little bummed about it. Why? I dont really know. One of my friends that have been there through our whole story says this is a good thing! Emphasize on the exclamation point lol. She means well, I know she does. Maybe she’s right, I can finally close this chapter and put it all behind me. I think its the thought of that… that bums me out. But when I think back on all of it, a lot of our story takes place in high school. Back when I constantly needed saving, and I think it scares me that I need to stop thinking of the past. High school is getting farther and farther away from me and who know’s, being 24 could be the BEST year of my life but I’m still hung up over being 17 that I’ll miss it.

I’m happy for you CJ. Congrats on your engagement. I’ll be getting your soul back to you soon. Parting with it after having it for six years is going to be a little hard, though lol.

Going to eat yummy food tomorrow & watch X-Men with the loves. Oh and also stopping by the bead store! I’ve been interested in making jewelry lately, I havent actually attempted to yet. But I’m looking into it. I bought some bead’s yesterday, and I’m a bit excited to use them! Hopefully that’ll go well. I’ve never been the “creative” type, I’m more of the “writer” of the family. Yet I always attempt to be the “creative” type even though I usually fail at it lol. Whatever though, right?

Lets see if I can end up inspired in the next hour or two, hopefully.